If you're looking for a holiday villa or apartment to rent in Porto Cristo, then the team at Balearic Villas have all the local knowledge, and fantastic properties, you could ever need. They will carefully select your luxury villa to perfectly match your holiday requirements.

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If sunbathing, swimming, and good food and drink are high up your list of priorities, then Porto Cristo could be the perfect place for you to rent your holiday villa. Tourists flock to the area all through the summer months. They come to visit the amazing Coves del Drach (Dragon Caves), an attraction not to be missed. You are taken down below the earth’s surface to an underground lake, which is the largest underground lake in the world. Here you can sit back and enjoy the classical show.

Close to Porto Cristo there is also an aquarium and a safari park, both of which provide good family holiday days out.

The beautiful harbour is one of the largest natural harbours in Europe and still houses the fishing boats. The industry still helps greatly with the economy of the town, meaning it is not totally reliant on tourism, as some of the towns are. In recent years a new marina was built for the pleasure boats, so that the fishing boats were not affected.

Porto Cristo got its name back in 1260 when a fishing boat was washed up on the beach. The boat contained a crucifix, and this was the time of the Christian invasion. Legend says that at the same time an oxen was walking through the town and when the boat was found it refused to walk any further. The people saw this as a sign that this was where Christ wanted to be, so they named the town the Port of Christ – Porto Cristo.

Crime is a rarity in the town, but there is a very active police presence to maintain its reputation for being a very safe place to be in Mallorca. It can be quiet, and is the perfect place for a relaxing stroll along the beach or the seafront, if you feel the need for something more lively then there are bars and restaurants with wonderful atmospheres.

Head inland and you are only a 20 minute drive from Manacor, the home of the Mallorcan pearl industry. Although the manufacturing side of the business has been moved to the mainland, it still maintains a factory shop and retail outlet in Manacor.

The street market in Manacor is on a Monday morning, and is one of the liveliest and busiest on the island. You will find jewelry, clothing, freshly baked bread and cakes, pottery and fresh local produce consisting of fruit and vegetables, along side leather goods and everything else that Mallorcan markets have become famous for.

Among the 800 plus properties that Balearic Villas have for rent, there are several in Porto Cristo and its surrounding areas. They are all hand picked to ensure that when our expert advisors are helping you to organise your holiday, we know you will be staying in the best property, as well as receiving the best service from Balearic Villas.